by Christel | Jun 22, 2021 | Podcast
“Your Body is Holy Ground.”
I received this teaching from my inner guidance. Do you receive messages from your inner guidance?
I’m Christel Arcucci you’re listening to the Soul Purpose Podcast the place to learn the lightning path of embodied spiritual awakening with shadow and light integration in order to quit people-pleasing, reclaim power and create your soul purpose legacy.
This podcast is informational it’s also a transmission of power using hypnotic rhythm and energetic healing to integrate the teachings into your body-mind.
Today is the dark moon, and the day before the new moon. I sat down to work on my art journal entry when a booming voice said, “your body is holy ground.”
I stopped, and it repeated, “your body is holy ground.”
This declaration struck me like a bolt of lightning in my bones, grounding and anchoring me into my body and the moment. This simple statement was an energetic transmission that amplified my connection to planet earth in a way that I have only experienced In the heart of nature.
The dominant culture program running is that your body is a problem.
Many traditions teach that the only way to enlightenment is to get beyond the body, as I talked about in episode 1.
The idea that the body is the source of original sin, especially if you’re a woman, is widely accepted as truth.
Stating that the body is sacred, and holy ground is radical.
Treating yourself and your body like it’s a miracle is a revolutionary and rebellious act!
Learning to trust your body by unraveling stress and trauma patterns is one of the most important practices you can explore.
Will you accept the invitation to practice acknowledging, accepting, appreciating, and even loving your body?
I know it’s radical and let’s go deeper into embodied spiritual awakening.
How does it land in your body when I say, “your body is holy ground.”
What thoughts or feelings come up for you?
What sensations do you experience?
Now try this breath work practice: Take a gentle breath as deeply into your body and heart as you can. Place your feet flat on the floor with your hands resting on your thighs. One breath to open the back of your body, open breath to open the heart and front of your body. One breath into your hips, legs and feet. One breath flits your spine, neck and opens the crown of your head. Now speak out loud, “My body is holy ground.”
What do you feel and notice with no pushing away or pulling towards?
What is your experience in your body mind right now?
Right now is the place to access your power. Yet the mind pulls you into the past or future and makes the present so unfamiliar you don’t know how to skillfully ride your experience. Most often you will only be willing to be present if it’s good and even then your mind will jump into fear of something “bad” happening.
This moment. This experience. This NOW is magical, powerful and holy and your body is the gateway that is always always always with you and available.
As I tune in to my experience right now, I feel the central channel of vertical energy as clear and powerful. The central channel runs from the center of your hips between your sit bones in the core of your pelvis all the way through the top of your head.
My central channel lights up with excitement and upward moving, sparkly enthusiasm. “Yes, yes, yes, my body is holy ground!”
You should know that this has been a focus of my practice for decades so when I am reminded of this teaching it is a beautiful anchor to help me feel that my body right now is holy ground, but it has taken a lot of practice to have instant access like this.
A core element is being able to BE WITH whatever is happening in my body without trying to push it away or grasp on to whatever you are experiencing. I am not trying to dominate my experience or change it in any way.
The golden keys to access your body’s holy ground wisdom:
Present moment willingness to be with what is, not pushing away nor pulling towards.
The mind is a storyteller (which is a fancy way of saying it’s a liar.)
The body only tells the truth, although in order to access the truth you must unwind layers of trauma and stress response to discover the body never lies.
A golden key to unlock the felt sense and knowing is the pure flow of experience. Sometimes experience is like a fresh mountain stream and sometimes it is like the inside of the sewer system. Both are essential elements of life on earth, but often the focus is pushed onto only what is considered good, clean and worthy.
If this is a new concept for you, it may be met with resistance or it may not land for you if you are still working on resetting old programs that are running.
I worked out a little I bit too hard yesterday and so physically I am in some pain today. There’s something going on in my pelvis that is more that just muscle discomfort.
The truth is… I’m in physical pain today.
I mention this because it’s important to I speak honestly about both the pain and the knowingness that my body is holy ground exists at the same time.
Many people are experiencing pain in the bodies, which can make it difficult to feel the truth that your body holy ground and my intention with this episode it to create an opening for a different experience.
When you’re not feeling good, it’s easy to buy into the belief that you can only feel good when you feel better when you’re not in pain, ill, anxious, depressed, or sad, etc.
A big focus today is “be” with whatever is happening in order to feel better. I invite you to try, don’t wait until things are perfect in order to feel good.
Yes, it’s hard to remember and feel that your body is holy ground when you’re feeling crappy.
Feeling good can be elusive and that’s how you remember that earth school is the project that you signed up for in order to focus on this!
Life experience, stress and trauma often disconnects you from your body and from remembering your infinite creator self. Yet inner guidance, gently and sometimes not so gently, teaches you to remember your Creator Self.
You have a body in order to experience, learn and remember that your body is holy ground, all of your experience, wonderful and terrible, beautiful and devastating, embrace and be with the extremes.
Embodied spiritual awakening is revolutionary practice and is more challenging and important for women to remember that your body is holy.
Your body is holy ground does not mean it’s perfect or flawless.
Your body is MIRACULOUS! All the systems that are working together right now for you to be alive and listening to this are truly astonishing. Note, my intention is not to gaslight you into making yourself be grateful. I have an upcoming episode about when gratitude practice can do more harm than good.
What has your body done that’s astonishing or amazing? Recovered from a serious accident, injury, or illness? Run a marathon? Or simply woken up to enjoy another day? Part of this practice is to give your attention to the miraculous things our bodies does daily.
Being human is not flawless. Being human is wildly messy and chaotic, yet also amazing!
The Body as Holy Ground practice in this episode it’s not about being flawless, it’s about witnessing your present moment experience and maybe even enjoying the mess and miracle of life in a human body.
Holy is about your body being sacred and miraculous and also painful, ill or broken sometimes. Can you be curious and playful about everything and anything that is happening in your body?
On earth, it’s challenging to remember the body is holy.
Being human which is incredibly flawed and wildly challenging.
And most spiritual traditions and religions teach that the body is a problem not even remotely close to the body is holy.
It’s your work today is to remember that your struggles, flaws and programming is not what defines you.
When you feel stuck, or circling in a negative feedback loop, stop and embrace that life is difficult.
I am making this recording while we are in the coming out of a global pandemic.
Life is extra messy right now because it’s not just me and my humanity, messiness, hope, fears, anger, love and my gratitude that are present in my life right now.
When I tune in to what’s happening outside of my little bubble of my life, the entire world is in a global reset.
What the heck is happening?!
The reality of earth school is THIS is what you signed up for!
The best thing you can do it pause, breath, touch your legs and remember your body is holy ground, your experience and full embrace of whatever is happening in the moment is the gateway to FEELING THE SACREDNESS OF LIFE.
You may have to do this practice 10,000 times before you feel it, yet I promise you will feel this truth if you continue to do the practice.
Truth be told I often wonder, “what am I doing here?! Why did I think this was a good idea?”
Yep, even after all these years I often question myself!
A key is to not expect yourself to be enlightened and awake all the time.
Recognize the messiness of humanity.
Acknowledge the struggle.
That is why it’s holy Ground.
It’s a complete mind fuck and trust me… just keep practicing!
Humanity is fucking messy.
Embrace that everything shifts.
Holy and messy co-exist at the same time.
All right, my friends, this is the wisdom for this transmission.
Thank you for being here, and I look forward to walking the soul purpose path with you.
You’re listening to the soul purpose podcast filled with teachings and resources for the lightning path of embodied spiritual awakening with shadow and light integration in order to quit people-pleasing reclaim power and create your soul purpose legacy.
You can access the Free Soul Success Journal & meditation and all the episodes of the podcast at soulpurposepodcast.com.
I believe in you and the magic power of your soul.
If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review and follow on Apple Podcasts. I look forward to connecting with you in the next episode.
I am sending you so much love!
by Christel | Jun 20, 2021 | Podcast
What if you Forget Ascension & Focus on Turned-On Embodiment?
I want to talk about why ascension teachings distract from the human-ness and enjoyment of embodiment.
I’m Christel Arcucci you’re listening to the Soul Purpose Podcast the place to learn the lightning path of embodied spiritual awakening with shadow and light integration in order to quit people-pleasing, reclaim power and create your soul purpose legacy.
This podcast is informational. It’s also a transmission of power using hypnotic rhythm and energetic healing, which will include a variety in the intensity and speed of my speech. I will use sounding and deep breaths to help you feel and integrate the teachings into your body mind. I invite you to notice how this style lands for you. Does it take you deeper into your body or it distracting because it so different from other audio recording?
Your practice is to notice your experience without trying to change it. Be with what arises.
What’s the point of the soul purpose podcast? Who am I anyway? And what’s the benefit of listening for you?
The focus of this podcast is to support you to discover your forbidden fruit and delight in eating the most delicious fruit you’ve ever tasted, the sweet taste filling your mouth, washing over your tongue with juice run down your fingers so you can lick up every single delicious drop.
Yes, I mean it but also what does that mean in real life?
The forbidden fruit is living your purpose with power and pleasure.
Why is purpose, power and pleasure forbidden?
Modern culture has conditioned empaths and sensitive souls to be people-pleasers.
The condited program says. “it’s your job to focus your life on doing for others. This is your value. You will know what your loved-one’s need before they know they need it and you will provide it. You will live disconnected from your own body and heart and be completely oblivious to your own wants, needs, and desires. You will sacrifice yourself for others. Your job is to be the Rescuer and if you don’t rescue the victim, you will be called the perpetrator.”
This dynamic is the trauma or drama triangle, I call it VPR for short which stands for victim-perpetrator-rescuer which are the only rolls available to choose from. And as an empath, of course you will choose to become the rescuer.
In future episodes we will explore the trauma triangle in greater depth but for now the most important aspect for you to know is this framework creates ‘power over’ relationships.
The focus of this podcast is to reclaim power by creating ‘power with’ relationships.
How do ascension teachings play into the trauma triangle?
I am so glad you asked. Transcendence or ascension as the primary goal of your spiritual practice perpetuates the problematic ‘power over’ model that your human body is a problem or sinful. You have to get past, move beyond, and overcome the messiness of being human in order to awaken or achieve enlightenment.
The lightning path is a rebellious exploration of that disrupts this common model of transcendence and ascension teachings that dominate spiritual communities.
The key teaching here is: You are not broken, you don’t need to change, fix or get past anything.
The purpose is to awaken in and through the body by enjoying all of it. To embrace and be with all your shadows and light by integrating and embodying your greatness and your greatest challenges.
I believe you deciding to become human from your infinite creative self in order to eat and delight in the forbidden fruit of the tragedy and ecstasy of life on earth, which will be an experience of both heaven and hell. This is NOT a problem, it’s the point.
I am here to give you the permission you don’t need but want in order to enjoy the fuck out of this crazy trip called being human right here and now.
On the practical level you will learn daily recode practices, how to reset your stress response, resolve trauma, restore soul loss, skillfully navigate a dark night of the soul, since collectively we coming out of a global reset now.
You may be looking for meaning, purpose, tools to navigate and bring your soul gifts, more fully into the world and create wealth, vibrant health and great love.
But again, and again and again I will guide you to find the forbidden and fucking eat it, to enjoy the conflicting feelings of disgust and delight as you ENJOY YOUR CRAZY-ASS SOUL-CENTERED LIFE!
If you are waiting for someday to create a magical life, SOMEDAY IS TODAY!
Who am I, and what’s my story?
I am Christel Arcucci The quick version of my life story is my parents were the first in their families to go to college when my mom got pregnant with my older sister. Although I grew up in a fancy suburb of Chicago, both of my parents were alcoholic smokers.
When I was six months old I had a near death experience, often called an NDE. I stopped breathing and nearly died. This opened the veil between life and death, which means I see, feel, hear, and know the true nature of reality. Which may sound fancy, amazing or like a huge ego boost but my experience was this access was a total mind fuck for a child in a dysfunctional family because I didn’t have a teacher or a way to understand the stark difference between the reality I knew was possible with the reality humans are generally living.
Dying was my exit strategy out of this life, but my older sister called me back.
Earth school is a wild experience of ecstasy and tragedy, love and loss, the full spectrum of human possibility exists here.
If you are here, I imagine you are also an empath or highly sensitive person and what you see people say and do verses what you know and feel in your bones creates a disconnect and cognitive dissonance which makes it hard to enjoy being in a human body in this time in history.
You may wonder what I remember about being six months old?
Life is a magical and mundane exploration of extremes. I believe all children are born open, curious, playful, innocent and we remember that love is the source of all that is.
Soul retrieval work and working in the Akashic Records grants access to any information, time or place it’s all available. Almost dying at 6 months old changed my life and put me onto a transformational healing path that demanded that I skillfully navigate being an infinite being in a limited human body. I was forced to transform trauma into turn-on and make impossible dreams turn into my reality.
Life will bring you to your knees, likely many times and in many ways.
Yet the focus is not to transcend the human experience by moving into the upper chakras or “finishing” the work of the 3D.
The focus is to enjoy the fuck out of the madness, mayhem and mind blowing possibilities here on earth. This calls you deeper into the experience of being human, deeper into the muck, mud and hard stuff and to find your energy and power. Not to try to escape human experience with by getting beyond human struggle or being saved.
Eating the forbidden fruit means finding pleasure in the sacred and profane… I know it’s an usual path, yet it’s the lightning path of embodied awakening not seeking enlightenment beyond the body but in and through the body and the real challenges of being human.
My focus is to help you navigate Phoenix Life Reset experiences of when your life falls apart or burns to the ground because of illness, death of a loved one, loss of a job home, marriage, child, pet and skillfully come out of global situations that reset the entire world.
I want you to have fun and play with the craziness of being human and restore your intuition and direct access to your creator self so that you know without a doubt:
What to let go of?
What do you take a stand for?
How can you create a life sourced from great love and truth, no matter what is happening inside you or in the world around you?
You will create beauty from tragedy and have fun and find pleasure in the shadow, unwanted, uncomfortable aspects of your unconscious power as a person to create and destroy.
A metaphorical death, just like a near death experience is an initiation into a new chapter in your life, an opportunity to change, yet often the unconscious programming is so deeply engrained you will fight to recreate what you had instead of creating what you truly want.
I want to co-create new turned-on possibilities with you.
I have spent my life on the personal and professional transformational journey with depth studies about health, spirituality, psychology, metaphysics, magic, fitness, shadow work, stress response, soul purpose, navigating trauma, abuse, loved one’s addiction issues, the stress of extreme health challenges and nearly dying dozens of times.
I’ve experienced so many incredible things in my life and so much trauma and loss yet I have a creative and rich life not despite the challenges I faced but because I learned to transform wounds into wisdom.
Creating a rich life is a unique and individual process of determining your values and designing your life based on your bold vision. The intention of this podcast is to guide you to create a rich life in your body mind and being in order to create physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and financial wealth.
This is an in depth and edgy exploration of power, creativity, sex, money and soul and living your embodied soul truth.
We will dive deeply into, roll around with and get intimate with daily tools to come into the greatest soul alignment that is possible for you.
There is literally infinite information available on your mobile phone in your pocket, yet even more is available by accessing and embodying your creator self.
Living as your creator self you will transform old limitations and get to the heart of your purpose, power and pleasure so you can create your lasting soul purpose legacy.
Your soul is calling you to rewire your brain, change your habits, transform the choices you make in order to move from survival mode to thriving mode and embody the full potential of your soul.
The focus of each episode will be short with practical tips that you can implement immediately.
Thank you for being here, and I look forward to walking the soul purpose path with you.
You’re listening to the soul purpose podcast filled with teachings and resources for the lightning path of embodied spiritual awakening with shadow and light integration in order to quit people-pleasing, reclaim power and create your soul purpose legacy.
You can access the Free Soul Success Journal & meditation and all the episodes of the podcast at www.soulpurposepodcast.com
I believe in you and the magic power of your soul.
If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review and follow on Apple Podcasts. I look forward to connecting with you on the next episode.
I am sending you so much love!
